You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins, but we have enumerated ten honors [it bestows]! For this reason we baptize even infants, though they are not defiled by [personal] sins, so that there may be given to them holiness, righteousness, adoption, inheritance, brotherhood with Christ, and that they may be his [Christ's] members
Saint John ChrysostomGood men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.
Saint John ChrysostomWhat greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?
Saint John ChrysostomIf then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.
Saint John ChrysostomNothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness we practice and make known our virtue, and also cause the indignation of our brother to cease, and deliver his mind from perturbation.
Saint John Chrysostom